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[Q]Paranoid Android hybrid settings will not save

Hi Everyone,
Sorry if this question has been asked before but I have been having a bit of trouble when I attempt to change any sort of hybrid setting using PA. For example I want to change the UI to Tablet UI. When I hit "apply" the screen acts as if it's resizing but it stays exactly the same size and does nothing. This also happens when I try to change the DPI or settings of any app. I'm running built number JSS15J PA version 3.94. Franco Kernel 3.1.10 nightly.
Thanks in advance for any help.

same problem
I have the same problem on my galaxy nexus gsm. My hybrid settings are the same as before updating but I can not make new changes or revert the changes that I did before updating to 3.94. can someone please help with this problem?

btw did you by any chance perform a dirty flash, because that's what I did and I'm thinking whether it caused the problem or not.

Privacy in Settings

Hi,
The CM builds have a privacy option in settings. Is this something that is available in the google edition roms at all? I've tried running the new 4.4.3 but this doesn't appear to exist which is a shame for me. Is there somethign that can be used to replicate it (if it isn't available)?
thanks

Re:
This feature is build into every Android. On stock and many other ROMs, this feature is hidden. the cyanogenmod "Privacy" settings tab only brings app the "vanilla" AppOps interface that is hidden by default. If you run an Android version UNDER 4.4 you can access the Privacy menu on your device without root. But you say you updated to 4.4.3, so I bet you'll have to root to bring up the menu. With or without root, you should try this "App Ops" app. I used it before sticking to Cyanogenmod. App Ops by Lars Team (can not post link to store - low rep)
But just as a recommendation, if you want true privacy on Android, you need to ditch the Samsung and Google stock bloatware and get some clean and true Android like Cyanogen. My device is more secure than ever and boots almost instantly (set device to performance mode) with CM11. Anyway, if you have plans to root, (... and void your warranty...) do it with Cyanogenmod. For i9505 devices, there is Cyanogenmod Installer which automatically roots your device and loads recovery and Cyanogen, without any risk, except the risk of voiding your warranty and having the device display "Warranty Bit 0" when entering recovery.
andyjg247 said:
Hi,
The CM builds have a privacy option in settings. Is this something that is available in the google edition roms at all? I've tried running the new 4.4.3 but this doesn't appear to exist which is a shame for me. Is there somethign that can be used to replicate it (if it isn't available)?
thanks
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Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it.
I've been running the nightlies for CM for quite a while now but fancied trying the GE ROM that danvd brought out with 4.4.3 (already supersu). I looked in settings and couldn't see the option though so wondered if it was CM only or something. Didn't realise it was just hidden (as I've just gone back to CM backup after going through it all (including having to go back to ext format too). WIll definitely look for the app ops in play. Thank you

[Q] Aesthetics question regarding UB and CM ROMs

Hi all
So I have an interesting aesthetics / theme question. Here's the background: I have a S5 Dev Edition phone with TWRP. My first custom ROM was Team UBs 24jun version. I really liked the look of it (especially the small fonts and icons) but thought it was a bit unstable so I then installed the unofficial CM 10jun version. That worked well but some apps said they weren't compatible with it. So today I experimented with the new UB 13jul ROM. Unfortunately that wasn't too stable so I went back to the CM one. However after I reinstalled CM it looked quite different, with much larger icons and fonts.
Now in hindsight it looks like I didn't do a complete wipe in between UB and CM the first time around so CM must have picked up the system settings including fonts and icons that UB had installed. This time around after a full wipe CM installed its own defaults, which are much bigger. [I have CM on my Nexus 5 and it looks a lot more like that]. The apps that didn't work by the way do work now.
So my question to you all is do you know what UB's settings are for fonts and icons? I would like to replicate them under CM. Is there a theme setting that contains all of UB's presets?
I should also mention I have the full version of Nova launcher which I installed on CM, and UB had it as well. If it can be changed in Nova setting somewhere please let me now.
thx
PS - I tried to post this in the dev section under UB but it didn't let me, so posted it here.

lexcimer said:
Hi all
So I have an interesting aesthetics / theme question. Here's the background: I have a S5 Dev Edition phone with TWRP. My first custom ROM was Team UBs 24jun version. I really liked the look of it (especially the small fonts and icons) but thought it was a bit unstable so I then installed the unofficial CM 10jun version. That worked well but some apps said they weren't compatible with it. So today I experimented with the new UB 13jul ROM. Unfortunately that wasn't too stable so I went back to the CM one. However after I reinstalled CM it looked quite different, with much larger icons and fonts.
Now in hindsight it looks like I didn't do a complete wipe in between UB and CM the first time around so CM must have picked up the system settings including fonts and icons that UB had installed. This time around after a full wipe CM installed its own defaults, which are much bigger. [I have CM on my Nexus 5 and it looks a lot more like that]. The apps that didn't work by the way do work now.
So my question to you all is do you know what UB's settings are for fonts and icons? I would like to replicate them under CM. Is there a theme setting that contains all of UB's presets?
I should also mention I have the full version of Nova launcher which I installed on CM, and UB had it as well. If it can be changed in Nova setting somewhere please let me now.
thx
PS - I tried to post this in the dev section under UB but it didn't let me, so posted it here.
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Well, the easiest thing you could do is under nova launcher settings, go to look and feel, you can change the font and icon size there. I believe it only applies to launcher settings, so it won't change any of the system fonts or sizes. For those you just go to settings, display and there's a font section there... as far as I know themed roms occasionally change the DPI of the entire system, to give everything a cohesive feeling, but there are also a lot of things that need to also be modified when you change the DPI, so exactly copying the look of a particular ROM is not quite as simple as it sounds.
Hope this helps.

DPI question solved
Hi
So I figured out the best way to set the DPI is to download texdroider from the play store. It handles it across the board for the device and everything looks great. I set my DPI to 370 btw.
Thx

Lockscreen issue

Hello !
I've just installed an LG UX 4.0 stock based rom from a Vietnamese developer and there is a "problem"
The lockscreen has something written in Vietnamese ,under the date as shown in the image below
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B88WShLiucOfZWpUTktLeE83ZE0
I've tried changing the language ,location in the settings and the locale,region etc. in the build.prop to remove it but no luck
I also tried to disable the calendar as this seems to be an event of some sort,but still nothing
It doesn't affect the phone itself but it bugs me everytime I see the lockscreen
Is there a way to get rid of it?
Thanks!

Custom ROM with no ISSUES

hi all,
i am running the stock version of SM-900 and want to know if any custom ROM can be applied with no issues? I see issues with lineage OS as some reported that camera is not working. Any tips / advice please? Reason for upgrading is that the tablet is very slow.

For my SM-P900 (v1awifi), I've been using Resurrection Remix OS (RR-N-v5.8.5-20170926-v1awifi-Unofficial) using Android 7.1 2. Device and OS are definitely dated, but otherwise work fine. Rooted with SuperSU Pro, and TWRP recovery. OS Developer Mode options help.
Also AdGuard Premium and Opera Touch both help.
YMMV.

is camera and whatsapp etc working?

Yes. Open Camera from Fdroid works fine. Whstsapp from Google Playstore also works fine.

thanks and faster thank stock firmware?

Yes IMO better response overall. RR ROMs have worked well for for me, but I couple that with some other tweaks mentioned.
Before installing RR ROM, you could just try Developer Mode tweaks for setting animation scale. I use 0.0x (no animation) for the 3 scale settings and that improves response overall.

jrchester said:
Yes IMO better response overall. RR ROMs have worked well for for me, but I couple that with some other tweaks mentioned.
Before installing RR ROM, you could just try Developer Mode tweaks for setting animation scale. I use 0.0x (no animation) for the 3 scale settings and that improves response overall.
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Do you have issues with the stylus causing the entire tablet to crash and reboot? I've had that issue with Lineage OS.